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The resulting oscillator has reduced the jitter in the system to just 15 femtoseconds
Today, these applications rely on microwave oscillators.
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IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2024
But atoms in a molecule move in billionths of a second, aka femtoseconds; electrons move and change energies faster, between one and a few hundred attoseconds.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2023
This means processing speeds in devices based on them could reach femtoseconds, a million times as fast as the speeds achievable with current gigahertz electronics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2023
Electrons in semiconductors usually scatter after traveling just nanometers, on a timescale measured in femtoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2023
The researchers shone infrared laser pulses 250 femtoseconds long on top of the channel to help accelerate electrons down it.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
For many years light pulses were stuck in the femtosecond regime (one femtosecond is 1000 attoseconds).
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
In the 1980s, Ahmed Zewail at the California Institute of Technology developed the ability to make lasers strobe with pulses lasting a few femtoseconds — thousands of attoseconds.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
The problem was fundamental: even the briefest physically achievable optical laser pulse was a few femtoseconds in length.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2024
But atoms in a molecule move in billionths of a second, aka femtoseconds; electrons move and change energies faster, between one and a few hundred attoseconds.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2023
This means processing speeds in devices based on them could reach femtoseconds, a million times as fast as the speeds achievable with current gigahertz electronics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2023
Electrons in semiconductors usually scatter after traveling just nanometers, on a timescale measured in femtoseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2023
The researchers shone infrared laser pulses 250 femtoseconds long on top of the channel to help accelerate electrons down it.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
For many years light pulses were stuck in the femtosecond regime (one femtosecond is 1000 attoseconds).
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
In the 1980s, Ahmed Zewail at the California Institute of Technology developed the ability to make lasers strobe with pulses lasting a few femtoseconds — thousands of attoseconds.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
The problem was fundamental: even the briefest physically achievable optical laser pulse was a few femtoseconds in length.
—Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
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“Femtosecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/femtosecond. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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